Oil-can



(No Model.)

J.' H. HULINGS.

- y OIL GAN. No. 554,780. Patented Feb. 18, 1896.

VWF/Wifil MMM/ mix/@M l sons, in the county of Tucker and State of .panying drawings, in which- UNITED STATES vArnNr QFFICE.

.I AMES H. IIULINGS, OF PARSONS, TEST VIRGINIA.

OIL-CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming` part of Letters Patent No. 554,780, dated February 18, 1896.

Application filed April 20, l 8 9 5.

To all whom it nto/,y concern.: l

Be it known that 1, JAMES H. HULINcs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Par- Vest Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oil-Cans; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of an oil-can, showing the preferred form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a can, showing a modification of my invention, being partially broken away to expose to view interior parts. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 represent nozzles of different styles suited to this can.

This invention relates to that class of cans which are of a size suitable to be raised by hand for discharging their contents 5 and its object is to adapt a can to be handled by one hand with a strong grip capable to use heavier cans than are commonly handled in that manner and at the same time to enable the operator to repeatedly pump from the contents of the can and to direct the delivery with the same hand, and while I have called the subject of this invention an oil-can,yet the principle of construction maybe adapted to cans for many other purposes, such as washing windows, sprinkling flowers, &c.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts forming an oilcan hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accom- 5 represents the body ofthe can, 6 a nozzle screwed thereon or secured in any usual manner, and 7 a handle by means of which the can may be held and used.

8 represents a pump secured within the handle, and preferably made as a rubber ball, adapted to be compressed by the same hand which supports the can, and adapted to eX- pand itself in the usual manner either by its own elasticity or by the aid of an additional spring 16 coiled within it. This pump is provided with any usual style of suction-valve at 10, communicating with a suction-pipe 11, which extends within the can to a point opposite to the handle, so that when the can is Serial No. 546,486. (No model.)

permitted to hang freely by the handle the pump will draw oil from the lowest portion thereof.

12 represents the deliverypipe for the pump, its dischargeopening being into the side of the nozzle 6 near the outer end thereof. In Order to operate this can it is only necessary to direct the point of the nozzle where the oil is required to be delivered and then compress the pump once or twice to cause the oil to begin to low, after which a steady pressure of the fingers upon the pump will cause the same to deliver as much oil asis usually required upon any one bearing, and the operator may stop pressing the instant he sees that enough oil has been delivered. This enables him to use the oil with great economy, neither wasting any nor daubing the exterior of the machine. Of course it will be understood that in large bearings the pump may be worked repeatedly until enough oil is delivered.

This can is peculiarly well adapted for the delivery of oil lon overhead bearings or at any point above the level of the can, as the oil may not only be forced above that level but it may be done with an even and steady pressure.

To aid in reaching the oil-holes of overhead bearings a curved nozzle 13 may be placed upon the end of the delivery-nozzle 6.

If at any time it should be desired to spray oil, water, or other fluid over any object or place, a spraying-nozzle 14 may be iiXed upon the end of the nozzle 6. Y

In oiling large bearings, such as car-axles, where the oil-can may be readily held over the bearing with its nozzle downward, the oil may be permitted to run by gravity from the nozzle 6 without working the pump, and by this means the very last drop of oil may be poured from the can.

In the modiiication shown in Fig. 2 I have shown a can in which the pump Sis made of metal and provided with a piston 16, which is connected with an elbow-lever 17 by a pitman 18. This pump is worked by the fingers of the hand which holds the can pressing on the handle 19 of the elbow-lever 17, any suitable spring 2O being provided to return the lever and pump-piston. As oil of a greasy nature will injure rubber, the ball 8 may be made of IOO silk, cotton, leather, or any other flexible material properly treated to be impervious to the iiuids to be pumped. Of course it would be possible to disconnect the nozzle at 2l from the elastic hose portion l2 of the delivery-pipe and connect therewith any other style of nozzle. By using a nozzle l5 with a small delivery water may be thrown to a considerable distance, suiiicient to reach the tops of high windows or of small trees, and in the latter case suitable iluids may be used for destroying worms and injurious insects. A prominent characteristic in this case is that you can hold the can by its handle and work it as a pump with the same hand, so that the other hand is left free for otherpurposes. In this device the rigid portion of the handle rests in the palm of the operators hand, against which some of the iin gers may press it firmly, while other iin gers are at liberty to Work the pump, whose lever or movable portion is between the handle and can, thus adapting this pump to be used freely whether the can be held hanging below the hand or raised to oil overhead bearings.

If the lever or movable portion of the pump were located next to the palm of the operators hand it could only be operated by openingr and loosening the grasp of the hand upon the handle, and I do not claim a device so constructed.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I believe to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

l. The combination of an oil-can body provided with a stiff handle extending from one side of the body in loop form; a pump within the handle; the propelling mechanism of the pump being located between the still? portion of the handle and the can and adapted to reciprocate in a direction transverse to the handie and can substantially as described, whereby the handle may be grasped in the palm of the operators hand and be held firmly by the thumb and part of the fingers while the pump is operated by the rest of the fingers.

2. The combination of an oil-can body; a delivery-nozzle therefor; a han'dle at one side of the body; a pump located within the handie; a suctiou-pipe leading from the can into the pump, and a delivery-pipe leading from the pump into the nozzle at one side near the end thereof substantially as described ,whereby oil may be poured from the can by gravity directly through the first-named delivery-nozzle; or oil may be forced in at the side and out at the end of the same nozzle by the said pump.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES I'I. HULINGS.

Witnesses:

E. M. Moss, I'I. C. SHAFFER. 

